 1006 - BOGGY CREEK II: AND THE LEGEND CONTINUES...
Genre: Redneck Monster (1985, Color)
Synopsis: The movie is about a Professor at the University of Arkansas who decides to investigate sightings of a “Big Foot”
like creature reported in a swampy area of the state.
So he takes a scrawny boy named Tim and two airhead girls
(Tanya and Leslie) as his assistants in his jeep on a camping trip to find the creature.
They drive to some po-dunk, rural Bubbaville that, if you’ve been in the south, is unfortunately very true to life.
There they go around and interview anyone who has seen the creature, with each person they talk to getting closer and closer in appearance to former cast members of
Deliverance, until they meet Old Man Crenshaw, truly the
most disgusting creature in Boggy Creek. (I guess thematically, they were getting more and more primitive, hence closer to the primitive creature
– but I doubt the filmmakers were that creative.)
The Professor soon finds out that Old Man Crenshaw is dealing with the creatures
(there’s actually two of them) in his own way.
It all ends in a stupendously unexciting way with even more sequel possibilities unfortunately left wide open.
Host Segments:
- Prologue: The ’Bots are showing Mike
their Scout projects that they’ve been working on
- Segment One: Pearl plans to take over
the world by shutting off all power and cornering the
market on potato-powered batteries, but Bobo forgets
to buy any potatoes at the store
- Segment Two: Mike breaks up a fight
between Tom and Crow, so like the movie, they
flashback to see what happened
- Segment Three: Pearl likes the
money-making tourist scam possibilities of a legendary
creature, so concocts the idea of having her own
creature: Bobo
- Segment Four: Servo starts a
corporation called WHITL Tech to exploit the untapped
whittling market
- Segment Five (End): Crow is tending his
fires as Servo plays the little creature, but they get
tired of this game, leaving Mike to tend the out-of-control
fires; Pearl & Brain Guy are running their
Legendary Creature Gift Shop, but a bored Bobo blows
it for them
Stinger: The Professor says to Tanya, “I
saw the little creature,” causing her to scream “No!”
Don’s Review:
Because I have lived in the South my entire life and, for years, have made fun of the southern rednecks down here, I
really looked forward to this
Southern-fried MST episode. The riffing was decent with
some really good lines here and there, but really should have been better, and the host segments
were decent, featuring mostly movie-related segments.
So, not a great episode, but for someone living in the South, this is a must-see.
Don’s Rating: 
Forrest’s Review:
I saw this one of Sci-Fi a while back, and I remembered it being very good, but seeing it again, it was much, much better than I remember.
The riffing in this one had me laughing a lot. The beginning started out pretty slow, with some really dumb
“deer” related riffs by Crow (why does Crow get all the really stupid riffs).
But, MST is better than that, and as always, although there are some pretty stupid riffs in
Season Ten, the rest of them make up for it.
This movie is the most southern of all of Season Ten, and the riffing here concentrates mostly on making fun of southerners.
Lots of laughs are offered up here, though it lacks pop culture references, the jokes here are great, and are very appropriate for this type of movie (If only Joel and the Bots riffed
Attack of the Giant Leeches in the same style, that would be something).
The host segments here were okay, but are really, really goofy.
I like the goofy host segments (though I prefer the Comedy Central host segments), but for people like Don, I advise you to steer clear from them.
These host segments are still movie related, but I warn, they are above and beyond goofy.
The Rhino DVD is pretty good quality, but still pixilated in some moments, but
it’s thankfully lacking the very dark picture quality on
Merlin’s Shop of Mystical Wonders and Time Chasers from the same DVD set.
Highly recommended.
Trivia Note: The writer/director/producer/star of Boggy Creek
2, Charles B. Pierce, is also responsible for the first Boggy Creek film, and the other
“lost”
Boggy Creek 2 (see the Mike Nelson intro on the DVD for more information).
However, sans the ultra crappy Boggy Creek films, he also co-wrote one of my favorite action films:
Dirty Harry.
Forrest’s Rating: 
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